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First, Bridget gets jealous of Mark’s relationship with a colleague, beautiful Rebecca (Jacinda Barrett), who appears to have eyes for him, and then her middle-brow ways cause some embarrassment at a posh dinner he takes her to and they squabble splitsville soon follows. Spending a couple of hours watching the two billing and cooing like happy lovebirds would hardly be very enjoyable, so the script quickly sabotages their romance. When we last saw the dumpy, klutzy but purportedly lovable Bridget, played very broadly once again by Renee Zellweger, she’d finally linked up with the man of her dreams, staid but handsome human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth, exhibiting superhuman patience both as a character and as an actor). It required fully four writers (including Helen Fielding, who wrote the novel on which it’s based) and six producers to come up with something that basically repeats the same romantic triangle from the first movie but, on those occasions when it does veer into new territory, goes completely off the comic rails. Of all the pointless, unnecessary follow-ups we’ve suffered through this year, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” takes the cake. That fine actor Jim Broadbent only has six or seven lines as the heroine’s father in this sequel to “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” but the first one he utters will probably resonate with any man dragooned by his wife or date into going to see it.

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